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A list of resources to help you learn about Distributed Systems, how they work, how they fail, why they're great and terrible at the same time
Good Intro to explain the landscape by Stanislav Kozlovski
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/a-thorough-introduction-to-distributed-systems-3b91562c9b3c/
How to get started with Distributed Systems by Caitie McCaffrey
https://caitiem.com/2017/09/07/getting-started-with-distributed-systems/
Interactive Visual Representation of how Raft(a distributed system consenses algorithmn works)
http://thesecretlivesofdata.com/raft/
Kyle Kingsbury explains consistency models
http://jepsen.io/consistency
Kyle again on the Myth of the reliable network:
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2655736
More General "Ops" Material:
Guide to understanding OSI and Netowrking
http://www.tcpipguide.com/free/index.htm
Free Book on the topic if the ads drive you crazy
https://www.isi.edu/~hussain/TEACH/Spring2014/notes/Steven00a.pdf
Julia Evans' Zines are Awesome she's also a great follow on twitter @b0rk:
https://wizardzines.com/zines/
Containers as Alice Suggested in here talk are a super useful thing to learn about Jérôme Petazzoni put together an epic resource on the topic:
https://container.training/
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